Sun, Castles, Art Galleries and 40,000 Skeletons.

Prague was really pretty :) It was a beautiful city everywhere; even away from the traditional old town all the buildings were lovely pastel shades and decorated ornately. It made a difference from all the agricultural shops smelling of grains and chickens lining the street in Nakuru.

Pragueness:

-- The castle: long walk uphill but compensated for by the amusement of seeing some famous window out of which someone was 'defenestrated' (i.e. thrown out of it, and I think this is a word that should be used more often in modern english) causing some big war. Seeing a medieval torture chamber complete with spiky chair was interesting but gruesome, and we spent ages queing to get into quite an impressive cathedral.

-- A chapel filled and decorated with the skeletons of 40,000 plague victims. Well weird. There were bones all strung up like streamers across the gloomy stone room, and enormous pyramids of skulls, not to mention a huge chandelier made from every bone in the human body.

-- An art museum I've been wanting to see for years, AWESOME, I should do more art.

-- Pretty old streets with little open air cafes where you could get a cold drink, and gardens with fountains and peacocks creeping up behind you.

-- A fascinating day spent in the National Museum because it was raining, consisting of several million rock specimens, 10 of which may have been interesting, the other 999,990 being the kind of standard lumpy grey rock you find in your back garden. A scary exhibition on pregnancy filled with photos of mutated babies completed this wonderful experience. Yay.

-- Watching street artists drawing quick portraits on a very old bridge, eating evening meals in the sun with my family, eating CHEESECAKE and TIRAMISU for the first time in 6 months, and burning my nose because I am just that cool.
Oh my God I want that much tiramisu.

Now I am in Bristol, where I am SO UNCONVINCED about this summer thing. This place is just one big ball of grey mist. And my umbrella is broken so looks ridiculous, metal things dangling in front of my face when I use it. Work is the dullest thing ever but well paid. I need to buy new i-pod headphones because I hate the radio station that's permenantly on in the office.